{"id":11875,"date":"2016-09-02T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=11875"},"modified":"2016-08-09T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T13:00:54","slug":"gareth-culshaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/gareth-culshaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Culshaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tunes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nNext to the cattle market<br \/>\nA long alleyway room, where electric<br \/>\nlooking chairs waited. Tunes the barbers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Right to the bone&#8217; he would order.<br \/>\nI sat quietly, as the snipping teeth bumped along.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor chugging graders ran through, in<br \/>\nbends over hill shaped heads.<br \/>\nThe cow dung wafted in sometimes<br \/>\nfilling our nostrils with farm life.<\/p>\n<p>I was always glad to get out, well mowed.<br \/>\nBut groaning came from next door as we left.<\/p>\n<p>My father once took us in there.<br \/>\nHe was a city boy, so it was new to us both.<\/p>\n<p>Flat cap men, dull coloured clothes<br \/>\nhoof kicking, stomping cattle.<br \/>\nWe stood and watched, feeling out of place.<\/p>\n<p>Prisoners tinned squeezed into trailers<br \/>\ntook to new hills, waiting to be cut.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gareth Culshaw<\/strong> is an aspiring writer who hopes one day to achieve something special with the pen. He resides in North Wales with his family and animals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Tunes &nbsp; Next to the cattle market A long alleyway room, where electric looking chairs waited. Tunes the barbers. &#8216;Right to the bone&#8217; he would order. I sat quietly, as the snipping teeth bumped along. Tractor chugging graders ran through, in bends over hill shaped heads. The cow dung wafted in sometimes filling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11878,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions\/11878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}